Love, Law, and Liberty: A Queer History of UK/US Relations

Date: 

Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 4:00pm

Location: 

Thompson Room, Barker Center

Love, Law, and Liberty: A Queer History of UK/US Relations

Talk by Stephen Dryden

Wednesday, April 18, 4:00 pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center

Steven Dryden will speak on LGBT history in the UK and the ways in which British queer movements affected attitudes about sexuality, freedom of sexual expression and identity in the United States.

Drawing on campaign materials, oral history recordings, film, literary and theatrical manuscripts, official publications, and ephemera, Dryden’s history will take us from an 1835 execution, via the trials of Oscar Wilde, though the internal conflicts of Gay Liberation Front UK, the direct activism of OutRage!, changing the age of consent, implementing marriage equality and the present day.

Steven Dryden is Broadcast Recordings Curator at the British Library and a principle curator of Gay UK: Love, Law & Liberty, one of the best attended exhibits at the British Library in the last two decades.